To:G. V. PLEKHANOV

Published:First published in 1925 inLenin Miscellany IV.

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Ireceived your letter and hasten to reply. So you are writing the
pamphlet. I am very glad to hear it. It would be a very good thing to
publish in the feuilleton ofIskrasome of the chapters from the
pamphlet, including the one you mention. I expect itnext week;
otherwise it won’t get into No. 30. It would be desirable to get it in so
as to keep on attacking the S.R.s without let-up.

Aren’tyou really going to reply to Tarasov (reprint from No. 3)?
Please do not give up the idea. He needs a good lesson.

Dropme a couple of lines to let me know whether you are writing
something, and if so, what and when do you expect to finish, so that I may
know what should go into the issue.

Icannot tell whether it is necessary to go to Brussels, for I have no
idea of what will be discussed at the
conference.[2]We have money now (America has sent 5,000 frs.), which
means that if necessary it is possible to go. Ginsburg, in my opinion,
could take your place onlyas an exception,for this
once, but under no circumstances permanently, for it is very likely
that decisive steps will have to be taken there too.

Ifyou decide to go, write or wire about the money.

Levinsonis threatening to leave because Lalayants was made manager of
the printery and he has quarreled with him. I wrote Lalayants asking him to
“smooth” things out. Perhaps you too could help to calm down Levinson and
impress it on Lalayants to handle him “with care”.

Iam sending to the printers (to Lalayants) the beginning of the
translation of Kautsky and a popular pamphlet on army life. Please look
through it at least in proofs.

InPetersburg ourworkers have been arrested, and our
intellectuals too. And so the Economists have managed to incite part of the
workers.
				 Inde[1]Nadezhdin’s glee. He should be taken to task for his demagogy. The
scoundrel!

Lepeshinskyis In the fortress; he was transferred there until “ready
to submit to interrogation”. The threat of a High Court trial (which means
hard labour) hangs over him.  They took from him a letter concerning the
Organising
Committee.[3]

Stavsky,the worker-orator from Rostov, is now in Berne. L. I. has
contacted him: he is anIskrasupporter. He should be drawn closer
to us.

TheTomsk people have reprinted our draft programme with an
introduction which is a hymn of praise toIskra-Zaryaand all its
work.

Weshall soon have more information on the progress made by the
Organising Committee.

Bestregards,Yours,Lenin

Thingsare schwach with transport, altogether schwach! A real
calamity!!

[1]Hence.—Ed.

[2]Areference to the session of the International Socialist Bureau held
in Brussels on December 29, 1902. G. V. Plekhanov did not attend.

[3]TheOrganising Committee(O.C.) for convening the Second
Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. was established on Lenin’s initiative at the
conference of Social-Democratic committees held in Pskov on November 2–3,
1902. The majority of the new committee wereIskrasupporters. P. A. Krasikov, F. V. Lengnik, P. N. Lepeshinsky and
G. M. Krzhizhanovsky from theIskraorganisation in Russia and
A. M. Stopani from the Northern League of the R.S.D.L.P. were co-opted to
the committee.